I found out about this fabulous initiative – Poets for Peace – through the 1000 Voices Speak for Compassion group on Facebook, and it looks like a glorious collaboration, which I’d like to be part of. So I’ve put my poet’s thinking-cap on, and I’m staring at a blank page to see what falls out onto it…and if it’s good enough (for me), I’ll join it in.

(To be fair, if it’s not good enough for me, you won’t see it either, but I still want to promote the collaboration and share the word with others who might be interested in adding their words to the project.) Continue reading →

* Written in 2014 after being brought a physical apology instead of a verbal one. Needless to say, it wasn’t a sincere apology in the least, but did inspire a poem to immortalize the situation. 😉 #BewareOfWriters

Did you ever want to unburden yourself to the dying
To take them into your confidence
As though your presence were mere
Coincidence, as though you hadn’t
Sought them out, hung up on the
Thought that maybe their position Continue reading →